Zhou Shui passed the small building in Bao Le's hometown, and went down the steps at the back of the small building. There was a private ferry with a black awning boat.After so many years, the ship is still there, with the anchor tied to the stone pillar at the port.Because no one has used it all year round, the anchor is full of rust.Some of the ropes are soaked in the water, entwined by aquatic plants in the river, and some white parasitic shellfish are dotted among them, which look a bit like pearls in the sun.

Bao Le got into the black boat and found that except for a small amount of water at the stern of the third square, the first two squares were not affected and people could stand on it.

The little girl vowed: "The boat is fine, let's take it to the cliff."

The anchor was released, and the two entered the cabin, waiting for the boat to be pushed away from its original position by the current.It was only then that Bao Le remembered that the boat had to be rowed.Looking around in the cabin, Bao Le picked up a three-meter-high boat pole.Carefully getting out of the belly of the boat, the little girl stood at the bow, struggling with how to put such a long pole into the water.

She didn't have a good sense of balance, the boat wobbled and swayed from side to side, keeping her balance had occupied all her attention.

Zhoushui swirls and flows between the two villages. Her family lives upstream. When the boat is pushed downstream, it will get closer to Kanghui Village on the shore, and there is a tendency to collide with it.Jun Zhi stepped out of the cabin and walked to her side. The weight of the two of them pressed on the bow, making the draft deeper. Coupled with the effect of the current, the black-covered boat tilted towards the bow visible to the naked eye.

Bao Le can't swim. Children have been afraid of water since they were young. When they see the bow of the boat tilted, they can immediately comprehend the suffocation of drowning.Apparently Jun Zhi didn't know this, he stretched out his hand to take the boat pole in her hand, the little girl suddenly got into his arms without saying a word, and hugged his waist tightly with her eyes closed.

This sudden movement startled Jun Zhi, and after regaining his senses, he softly coaxed humanity in his arms and said, "Let go."

Bao Le shook his head, not wanting to let go at all.

Jun Zhi said again, "Go back to the cabin."

The little girl who had her own thoughts still shook her head resolutely, and hugged Jun Zhi's waist even tighter.What bad intentions can the little girl have, but she just thinks that if she falls into the water, everyone will fall into the water together.

Jun Zhi had no choice but to put down the boat pole first.He bent down slightly, passed his arm under the opponent's knee, and hugged the girl who was tightly against him.Bao Le lifted his feet off the ground and raised his eyes in shock.It was full daylight then, and the sun was directly overhead.In the small boat in Wupeng, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, behind the person holding her is the bright sun hanging high, the sun flashed in her eyes, she couldn't see his face clearly, but she just vaguely felt that he should be smiling.

Jun Zhi carried her into the cabin and let her sit on the deck.The little girl who was still in shock was suddenly no longer afraid, and she had never felt so at ease for a moment.

"It's not that I can't row a boat," Bao Le blushed and argued for himself, "I'm just, just afraid of water." It's true that I'm afraid of water, but it's not false that I can't row a boat.In fact, except for the time when she was a child, she rarely went back to Chongli when she grew up, let alone rowing to the cliff.In the past, her father or neighbors rowed her boat, and the little girl who had never rowed by herself knew for the first time that rowing is also a skill.

Jun Zhi saved enough face for her, he saw it through and didn't say it, he walked back to the bow of the boat and picked up the boat pole again.Not everyone knows how to row a boat, especially to support this kind of two or three meter pole. It requires a lot of strength and balance of the person who supports the pole.So Junzhi really knows how to row a boat, and the rickety Upon boat becomes very stable in his hands.

The little girl remembered that when she was a child, her father stood at the stern of the boat and supported the pole, and her mother would sit in the cabin or bow, hold her in her arms, and teach her to sing.

The sun shines on Jun Zhi standing at the bow of the boat, Bao Le props his head with his hands, looks at it, and then laughs foolishly.

Jun Zhi, a person with such keen five senses, with such naked eyes, naturally discovered it a long time ago, but none of them spoke.In the quiet morning, there is only the sound of the water being stirred. Occasionally, a few magpies circle back and forth between Chongli Village and Kanghui Village, and sometimes land on the branches, chirping at them non-stop.

It is said that after a hundred years of cultivation, we can cross the same boat, a fate, who said that magpies don't understand.

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The boat moved forward along the surrounding water, and soon left Chong Li and Kang Hui behind, and the cliff slowly emerged from the mist of water vapor.First there is a faint shadow, and then the outline can be seen clearly. When you get close enough, the word "buzhou" on the cliff stone comes into view.

"Have you heard of Buzhou Mountain?" Bao Le suddenly asked Jun Zhi.

Jun Zhi put down the boat pole, the current current is just pushing them towards the cliff, no need for him to guide them.So he walked back to the cabin, the little girl sat to the right, and he leaned against her and sat beside her."I know." Jun Zhi nodded.

The little girl has always been very confident in showing her knowledge, and she said triumphantly: "In ancient Chinese mythology, after Pangu created the world, the heaven and the earth inevitably merged, and he transformed the world into everything with his body. The spine is Buzhou Mountain, so Buzhou MountainIt is Tianzhu. It is often rumored that it is the only way to the heaven in the world. Now many people say that Buzhou Mountain refers to the Pamirs. However, there are different versions of the myth. The cliff carvings say "Buzhou"It is impossible to test when the word was written. The elders in the village believe that this cliff surrounded by water is one of the fragments of Mount Buzhou scattered in the world. According to mythology, Mount Buzhou finally collapsed., you are so powerful, you must have heard why Buzhou Mountain collapsed."

Jun Zhi said: "Gong Gong."

Bao Le was very satisfied: "Because the water god Gonggong was dissatisfied with the fire god Zhu Rong being worshiped by the world, he went to fight with him. In the end, he didn't know how to fight well, and he didn't fight well.Huge waves pour down, and the world is full of mourning, so there is the story of Nuwa refining five-color stones to mend the sky."

"Chongli is the name of Zhurong, and Kanghui is the name of Gonggong. This is the origin of the name of our village." The little girl curled her lips, thinking of something, and said solemnly, "But there is one thing I am quite concerned about.I lived in Chongli before elementary school, but our Jiang family tried to summon Bi Fang when we were five years old. I summoned a fireball for the first time on the cliff, and my grandma stopped letting me live in the village. After thatAfter I went to school, I lived with my parents in the city and only came back once in a while. But since then, the number of people in the village has become less and less visible to the naked eye. After my grandma passed away, I came back once a year.There was also one time after the trip. At that time, I found that there were only seven or eight households left in the two villages, and they were all from the older generation.”

After the little girl finished speaking, she took a peek at Jun Zhi, who didn't seem surprised at all.

The black-padded boat was sent by Zhou Shui into the arms of Buzhou Cliff while she was chattering. Jun Zhi got up and dropped the anchor, and Bao Le poked his head out behind him, only to find another small boat on the shore.It rained last night, and the boat is full of water. It seems that it has been parked here for a few days.

"Could it be Jiang Ning?" Bao Le asked.

Jun Zhi didn't answer her question, he straddled his long legs and walked ashore easily.The little girl complained that the two of them saw the scenery together on the boat, and she told him so many stories, why this man's reaction became even colder.Unexpectedly, Jun did not leave after landing, but instead stretched out his hand towards her.

The little girl froze for a moment, her heart beating faster.She doesn't look so weak that she can't even cross such a distance, and she has been on a boat when she was a child, so she will definitely go ashore by herself!In her impression, although Jun Zhi would always help her, he usually only came to help her when she saw that she couldn't handle it by herself, just like punting just now.

He has never been one to do superfluous things unless necessary.

Bao Le put his hand in his palm, allowing him to bring himself ashore.

After landing on the shore, the two walked up the mountain road side by side, and their destination was the hut on the mountainside.The little girl secretly looked at him the whole time, thinking that this person seemed to be a little different from when she went to Ya'an last year, and she couldn't tell what was different.

Thinking about it, she was like a cat again, squinting at the other party.Jun Zhi stopped helplessly, turned to look at her, and caught the little girl who was making small movements on the spot.

"I'm not looking at you!" Bao Le blurted out, and after finishing speaking, he knew that he had said something wrong, and covered his face in regret.

Jun Zhi imitated Jiang Ning and flicked her forehead, the little girl looked at him in pain.She had been watching him secretly, wondering why he was expressionless after hearing her story, and also wanted to know why he did such unnecessary things just now.But countless times, when she looked at him, his side face looked so indifferent, completely the same as usual.

Now that she didn't look at him, he forced himself to look at him again in this way.But when she looked at him again, Jun Zhi smiled slightly, and that smile climbed into his eyes, which was different from the time on the roof of Ya'an.This was the first time she saw him and smiled from the bottom of her heart.

Many times, Jun Zhi is like a deep pool with no bottom. At his age, nothing can cause ripples in the pool.

If you have to say it, she is now one.

He has always been a very transparent person, and this girl has all her emotions written on her face, of course he knows what she is thinking.Jun Zhi said, "I come here every twenty years or so, so I already knew what you said."

Bao Le was shocked: "You, what are you doing in our village?"

"Looking for Jiang Ning," Jun Zhi raised the corners of his mouth a little more, and said something that surprised her even more, "I also came here when you were born."

The little girl was already shocked from ear to ear.

Jun Zhi continued: "Jiang Ning heard that you were born, so she ran back without authorization. I came to pick her up and bring her back to Shen's house."

"But, but..." Bao Le still had something to say, but she didn't know what to say.

The two walked for a long time, and they could already see the shadow of the hut.

"That house was originally built by your grandfather for Jiang Ning to live in," Jun Zhi pointed to the hut and said, "There is an underground palace under Zhoushui, which is the residence of the water god; there is a shrine on Buzhou mountain, which is the temple of the fire god.When she was still alive, she was a servant of a family named Jiang in Kanghui Village. After the Jiang family was destroyed, she was the only person in the world who could summon Fuzhu. That's why Ah Yan's great-grandfather took her soul from the underworld.Back. Afterwards, she made a contract with the Shen family to assist each subsequent head of the Shen family in finding a place of enlightenment. However, the heads of the Shen family do not live long. Before the new head of the Shen family can be alone, she will return here.Go back to the Water God's Mansion. If she doesn't live in the underground palace, she will live on the cliff, that's why your grandfather built this hut specially."

Bao Le swallowed his saliva and said suspiciously: "Aren't you kidding me? I'm going to take it seriously!"

"You are afraid of water because of the fate of the god of fire, and she is afraid of fire because of the fate of the god of water." Jun Zhi pushed open the door of the hut: "But she didn't know that you were a baby girl born in Chongli back then. It was not intentional to hide it.She just didn't have time to say it, and now she has guessed it herself."

The hut is simple and has only a table and a bed. The musty smell is very strong, but there is no dust accumulation, as if someone has cleaned it.

"She has been here," Jun Zhi frowned, "Maybe she has returned to the underground palace."

Bao Le was excited: "Then let's go to the underground palace to find her!"

Jun Zhi shook his head: "First, you are the god of fire, and Fuzhu will not take you to the mansion of the water god. Second, no one except Jiang Ning can summon Fuzhu, and neither can I."

The little girl was confused: "Then what should I do?"

"Leave a note for her, and she will see it when she comes up. Let's go to Bei Jing first, otherwise we won't be able to catch the high-speed train."

Obediently, Bao Le took out a pen and paper from his bag, left a note, put it on the table, and sprinkled a handful of candy on it.After everything was finished, the little girl rolled her eyes and approached Jun Zhi with a smile: "Are you tired from talking so much today?"

Jun Zhi frowned and looked down at her.He didn't know why, but he always felt that she looked like a cat that had just had sex.

"Why do you explain so much to me? This is not your style, Jun Zhi." The little girl induced him step by step, and she was about to successfully induce him to say what she wanted to hear the most.

Jun Zhi standing in front of her suddenly moved his legs and turned to face her.She had just finished writing and was still standing by the table. His arm passed her side and his palm rested on the table behind her.The familiar fragrance from the other party's body, the hot air he blew on her face, and the top-to-bottom naked|naked eyes all indicated that the distance between them was getting closer.

Bao Le felt a heat in his throat, put his hands behind his back, grabbed the edge of the table, and closed his eyes nervously.

Is he going to kiss her? Is her first kiss going to be explained here?No, is this person the Jun Zhi she knew? Could it be that he didn't know when he replaced Jun Zhi from the Mirror Realm?Look at his skillful appearance, he is not at all like the Jun Zhi she knows who has no worldly desires!

The little girl secretly opened her eyes, and found that the other party had separated from her at some point, and was reading the note she had placed on the table.

Wait a minute, she's all set, now you tell me, he just wanted to grab something behind her?

Jun Zhi noticed that she was looking at him with resentment, rubbed her head and said softly: "About Jiang Ning, we never thought of hiding it from you. When you first came to Shen's house, she said in front of you that IShe smashed three palaces. You never asked why palaces."

When he said that, Bao Le's first reaction turned out to be—remember what happened between them, it seems that this is the real Jun Zhi of their world.

"As for what you want," Jun Zhi said again, "now is not the time."

It's not that you make it clear, what do I want?The little girl blushed, and when the other party wanted to reach out to rub her head again, she reached out to block it.Jun Zhi was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't let go of his hand.His fingertips touched her fingers along her wrist, and he held her hand tightly in his.

This hand is small, pink and tender, and a little fleshy. The nails are neatly manicured, and a thin layer of transparent nail polish is applied.

From the first time she used this hand to hand him an osmanthus cake, he liked this hand very much.In his long life, he rarely fell in love with anything like this at first sight.